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Zbl 1185.68133
Piqueira, José Roberto C.; Araujo, Vanessa O.
A modified epidemiological model for computer viruses. (English)
[J] Appl. Math. Comput. 213, No. 2, 355-360 (2009). ISSN 0096-3003

Summary: Since the computer viruses pose a serious problem to individual and corporative computer systems, a lot of effort has been dedicated to study how to avoid their deleterious actions, trying to create anti-virus programs acting as vaccines in personal computers or in strategic network nodes. Another way to combat viruses propagation is to establish preventive policies based on the whole operation of a system that can be modeled with population models, similar to those that are used in epidemiological studies. Here, a modified version of the SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Removed) model is presented and how its parameters are related to network characteristics is explained. Then, disease-free and endemic equilibrium points are calculated, stability and bifurcation conditions are derived and some numerical simulations are shown. The relations among the model parameters in the several bifurcation conditions allow a network design minimizing viruses risks.

MSC 2000:: *68M99 Computer system organization
68N99 Software
92D30 Epidemiology

Keywords: bifurcation; disease-free; endemic; equilibrium; SIR; stability

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